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How did you hear about Happy Jacks?

Kimi

I'm looking at ways to grow our network and community! A big part of that is reflecting on how current community members found out about us!

HOW DID YOU FIND HJ? ?

Chris

Kimi I was having desperate withdrawal symptoms from a very intense Monsterhearts campaign (which is actually still going but we only manage to meet once every few months! So frustrating for us!) and they got so bad that I started searching the web for Monsterhearts podcasts - and there you were! So, probably I found you through a search in Apple Podcasts.
Actually I found several Monsterhearts APs - some didn't take the game seriously enough, some took it way too seriously (so sloooow) but Carefree High was just right. Just great. Loved it. I've been enjoying Happy Jacks podcasts ever since. I'm catching up with the older ones too - currently I'm halfway through the Tomorrow Legion and having a whale of a time!
Thank you for all the laughs and entertainment!
Weirdly, before I came across HJ I didn't know about Actual Plays, and I've been playing RPGs for decades.

SteveFromAtlanta

Kimi I had just discovered Actual Plays were a thing and found Ghostbusters. Loved it, but it was a bit distracting. I went on to several other APs that were more edited, but realized that they were nothing like my gaming table.
So I came back to HJ and have been here ever since!

shadesofeternity

Kimi originally, I thought this was a savage world podcast and after listening, went meh, why not. :p

JDGriz

I searched for super hero RPG ap's? You can thank the adventures of sewer bear for me finding the Masks run with y'all.

Don't think that is a marketable thing, but the variety of games you run will hopefully cast a wide net.

EricaOdd

The announcement of an AP of RIFTS for Savage Worlds! ?

bobcatt

I was looking for gaming podcasts when I got back into RPGs. iTunes had a pile of choices listed in their catalogue. I listened to 3 or 4 of each ‘cast, and stuck with HJ.

BattleMatt

Fredrix

iTunes search. But this was back in the day, when there fewer RPG podcasts about.

Kairaku

I actually found you through the Angry GM, in his link section of "people I don't hate!" Stu had just started the Mote AP. I had never listened to an AP before and thought it might be a good way to kill my daily train ride to work and back. I got hooked and wondered how I was ever going to get through the backlog! ?

And then I used to shock people when I started yelling at Stork on the train, so I bought a new car and could yell at him in private ?

Honken

I listen to Fear the boot, and I heard the first Fear the Boot, Happy Jacks crossover, and that is when i started listening to HJ.

/H

TheGrimace

Honken I also was a FTB listener (still am) and caught your first crossover, and quickly became a far more fanatic jacker than booter. I also listened to your whole backlog etc when my wrist got tired <bazinga!>

I've always liked how unpretentious and real you guys are. I also have far fewer instances of wanting to leap through the interwebs to strangle one of your hosts than I do with Chad...

whodo

I can't actually remember. I think I stumbled on to the show while searching for casts to try or you may have been mentioned by one of the others I listened to at the time. Fairly certain that the first episode I listened to was the first time you recorded at Strategicon, a quick check suggests that was... 2010!

EricaOdd

To clarify... it was Pinnacle's announcement of Dave's RIFTS game that got me interested.

I came for the gameplay, stayed for the beer and burping... lol

PolishOgre

EricaOdd
Same here. I was trying to find out what Savage Rifts was compared to Rifts and Deadlands. You folks were so entertaining, I tried the advice show. Now I'm hooked.

Azhrei_Vep

I heard about you first from the now-garbage Kicked in the Dicebags podcast, when Stu made them a rap intro. And never gave you any thought.

I heard about you again on the now-defunct Bear Swarm! podcast, and made a note to check it out someday.

Once 90% of the podcasts I listened to had pod-faded, years later, I finally looked you guys up.

Sigh, this really reminds me how much I miss The Bear Swarm! Podcast. Those guys were great.

whodo

Azhrei_Vep Yeah Bear Swarm was the first gaming podcast I listened to so there is a good chance I heard mention of HJ there. For the most part, was an excellent podcast, I drifted away from it when they started leaning more heavily into the wrestling talk. Nothing wrong with it, just not my thing.

Azhrei_Vep

whodo I can understand that. I haven't been a wrestling fan since I was young enough to buy the lie, but I did find the way they tied it into discussions of storytelling pretty good. ... Except when they forgot to do that. -_-

EricfromNJ

I honestly don't remember. It may have been iTunes back some time ago. I remember it was before Tappy left and there was the whole "Fate is crunchy" comment he made. I know it was long enough ago that a picture of her cosplaying as Wonder Woman that convinced my young son Gavin that it was actually Wonder Woman. My son Gavin is now a teenager and taller than me...

UselessTriviaMan

My good ol' buddy AzureTalon recommended Happy Jack's to me, way WAY back in the day. I started either in Season 1 or early Season 2, and y'all were my very first podcast.

I haven't regretted it once.

Kairaku

i was a very happy mechanics geek when Tappy came back ?

ProbieTim

Um... many years ago I was dying for a new gaming group after having all of mine crumble a couple of years prior. My girlfriend reached out to a bunch of her friends - who I knew peripherally through renaissance faire participation - and got a group together. That group consisted of early HJ hosts: Tyler, Bruce, Casey, and Enge. And thus I learned about Happy Jacks and the Shit Zombies were born.

At some point after that, I ran into Stu at a party, We'd known each other peripherally through the faire as well - I'd played didge for the Boggards once or twice at the faire - and we talked RPG geekery all night. He invited me to come onto the show, and thus the Probie Tim era of Happy Jacks RPG Podcast was born (I think... seasons 14 through 18 or something like that, and the Mote of Sin).

Provinto

I found it on my podcast app in 2015 when I searched "RPG" and thought it was the funniest RPG podcast that I'd found so far that also had good ideas and perspectives to offer (except for Bruce when he's super drunk).

Jeffrywith1e

I was searching for anything GURPS and found the old forums' dedicated GURPS forum. Started listening to the podcast after that. Backwards, I'm.

Greatwyrm

I think I heard of you from Bear Swarm, too. I remember catching up on the backlog when I was working in an office by myself, so that would have been '09 or '10.